Pathways to Starlight Women's T-Shirt

I saw this scene while walking along a ridge line outside Santa Fe. I was so taken with the stars that came out as the sun was setting and how the light lingered through each phase of night falling. I combined all the stages in this painting. The stars shooting across the night sky evoke the magical feeling I get at thinking about how the light we see from stars originated from them hundreds of years ago. The trails in my paintings represent the journeys of life and in this case the choices you have to make in life and about what path to take.

Contemporary Expressive Colorist Cathy Carey was born in Washington, DC. and grew up in Alexandria, VA. She was educated at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, and received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Several years later Carey moved to Southern California and continued painting, and started a business in graphic design and illustration. She works in all media’s including Photoshop to create images. She currently maintains a studio and teaches workshops in San Diego, CA and Santa Fe, NM., and has taught at the Art Institute of CA in San Diego. The award winning paintings of Cathy Carey are in many private collections world wide. “My purpose is to capture an...